Oliver Postgate
Born: 1925-04-12 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
Died: 2008-12-08
Known For: Creator
Biography
Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008), generally known as Oliver Postgate, was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll Bagpuss was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Postgate, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2023
- Clangers: Complete Collection as Narrator (Voice)
2009
2006
- The Complete Ivor the Engine as Narrator / All
2005
2003
- The Alchemists of Sound as Self
1984
- Tottie: The Story of a Doll's House as Narrator, Mr. Plantagenet (voice)
1976
1974
- Bagpuss as Narrator / Bagpuss / Professor Yaffle / Mice
- Vote for Froglet as Narrator
1969
- Clangers as Narrator (voice)
1965
- Pogles' Wood ... (Creator)
1960
- The Seal of Neptune as Narrator
1959
- Ivor The Engine as Narrator (voice)
- Noggin the Nog as Narrator